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shrink-wrap

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Noun

  1. A plastic film that is used to protect an item and which during application contracts so it tightly enclose it.
  2. The wrapping around an item that has been shrink-wrapped.

Verb

  1. To apply shrink-wrap to (an item).
  2. To reconstruct an extinct creature known from its fossils by depicting it with minimal soft tissue, yielding a thinner and less accurate representation of the creature.

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